Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mkate wa mayai/sponge cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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The Kenyan Sponge Cake is more famously known as Mkate wa Mayai (literal translation means Bread of Eggs). It's a very light and fluffy cake, that takes absolutely no time to prepare using minimal ingredients, and is really refreshing to have with a cup of tea or coffee. Here's a recipe for a sponge cake, traditional to Kenya, that became a firm favourite, because it's deliciously light and so easy to make. It's called Mkate wa Mayai, which sounds wonderfully exotic but actually means quite simply 'bread made from eggs'.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mkate wa mayai/sponge cake using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mkate wa mayai/sponge cake:

1. Make ready 10 eggs
2. Take 2 cups all purpose flour
3. Make ready 1 1/2 sugar
4. Get 1 tsp carrdamon powder
5. Make ready 1 Tsp vanilla powder
6. Take Raisins

It literally translate to Bread made with eggs. As its soft and spongy it is consumed in the morning or at teatime. The Kenyan Sponge Cake is more famously known as Mkate wa Mayai (literal translation means Bread of Eggs). It's a very light and fluffy cake, that takes absolutely no time to prepare using minimal ingredients, and is really refreshing to have with a cup of tea or coffee.

Instructions to make Mkate wa mayai/sponge cake:

1. Pre heat your oven at 180°C and grease your baking tin
2. Take a clean bowl and add eggs and sugar and beat till fluffy and double in size
3. Now add cardammon and vanilla and mix well using a hand mixer
4. Fold in flour bit by bit using a spatula
5. Add raisins and mix and pour in a baking tin and bake for 30min

The Kenyan Sponge Cake is more famously known as Mkate wa Mayai (literal translation means Bread of Eggs). It's a very light and fluffy cake, that takes absolutely no time to prepare using minimal ingredients, and is really refreshing to have with a cup of tea or coffee. Mkate wa Sembe (Swahili Sponge Cake) Have you ever heard of Mkate wa Sembe (Swahili words directly translating to bread of maize meal). This bread/cake is a delicious accompaniment for tea time. It is also known as Mkate wa Mayai or a Swahili Sponge Cake.

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